Diamonds among pearls in the rough

Diamonds among pearls in the rough, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

A view of two shop buildings, Boss and Tods, on Omotesando dori...a set of diamonds among pearls in the rough...

My Thanksgiving Menu

My Thanksgiving Menu, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

An illustrative chalk on blackboard menu art piece in a photograph by Taka Sakamoto...

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

Visions and introspections and palpable spaces...

Just a simple text posting, inspirational writing from a fellow artist, Christopher Benson.

"...What inspired me at the time was how antithetical to illustration Diebenkorn’s pictures were. His innovation of blending abstraction and figuration in the most mundane domestic subjects is so well known, and now so clichéd as a stylistic device, that it’s easy to overlook how dramatically that sort of approach changed the way we look at and experience paintings. 
This was a revolution that the Impressionists had started a century earlier, but Diebenkorn’s later efinement of many of their same principles — by then also affected by the pure expressive abstraction of New York school painters like deKooning — is an outstanding realization of the potential of this  kind of art. His images, taken from clearly regional Californian places, transcend the constraints of the local (and any specific emotions he might have felt about his own locale) and record a vision both introspective and universal.
His earnestly un-romanticized, yet aesthetically beautiful surfaces and compositions describe one narrow world with great specificity while maintaining a remoteness and neutrality onto which anybody anywhere might plausibly project their own experience. Perhaps that was not his intention, but it is nonetheless what he accomplished in his figurative work..."

...earlier landscape view painting layered sereis, set into moss garden mid springtime...

Close up of the Thanks recipes and illustrations

...these views show a detail of the illustrations and a screen shot of the Ipad drawing process...

 

Thanks, recipes and illustrations from our client appreciation party at the Gensler San Ramon office, this version printed on two sides with ten recipes and ten hand-drawn illustrations...

 

 

 

Thanks, recipes and illustrations as a take-away item...

Thanks, recipes and illustrations, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

Thanks, recipes and illustrations from our client appreciation party at the Gensler San Ramon office, this version printed on two sides with ten recipes and ten hand-drawn illustrations...

An urban woman in Tokyo under construction

A view
underconstruction, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

Portrait of the new urban woman in Tokyo